When Trump openly and repeatedly exclaims that migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” or shares a video calling for a “unified Reich,” he is literally echoing the language of Hitler.
Trump is not a “populist.” He’s not a “strongman.” He is a fascist.
CEOs have gamed the system for compensation, at the expense of labor. Their direct reports have gamed the system. The industry of inside and outside HR and compensation consultants have gamed the system to support the CEOs and their direct reports.
They all spend gobsmacking amounts of money on their anti-union consultants, lawyers, and programs. But when it comes time to pay labor, sorry folks, the piggy bank's empty. Howzat?
So Dave Calhoun, "retiring" Boeing CEO gets a total of $78 million between now and year end for overseeing a nightmare of engineering, legal problems, and customer problems for Boeing. Imagine what it would pay a successful CEO.
This is a 2x4 in the eye of regulators and those arguing that Boeing should return to being an engineering and safety-led organization, instead of a money extraction regime. Let the lawsuits and prosecutions begin.
Clearly, the senior leadership of the Republican Party has created a legal protection racket to protect what's left of Donald Trump.
Half of them seem to owe their jobs to him, half of them are afraid of owing their jobs to him, and half of them want to become his VP, in hopes that the don will soon have one too many McBurgers.
Ghoulish doesn't quite capture it, nor do the obvious and apt comparisons with Mafia families. But they're a start.
For Nat'l Police Week, Speaker Johnson is hosting a candlelight vigil tonight to honor fallen police officers.
But first he's in New York to support Trump, who has promised to pardon the violent criminals who brutally assaulted about 140 Capitol Police on Jan 6.
Trump is also soliciting oil industry bribes when he proposes to cancel all federal wind projects "on day one." (That will be a busy day.)
He doesn't know about or understand wind energy. He doesn't "hate it" as he proclaims. He just knows it's a cultural hot button for the right and for an oil industry that has enough money to pay for his campaign - and almost enough to pay his lawyers. He's such an obvious sham.
Poor Eric, he's always the last to know. Like many who've grown up in severely dysfunctional families, he thinks his upbringing was normal. It's the other guy's family that lived with and/or created monsters. Might be a connection there with why his daddy is obsessed right now with Hannibal Lecter.
Yeah, it makes sense that Donald Trump would turn his son, Barron's, day into Trump Day and a political fundraiser. Great way for Dad to say you're special and I love you.
What makes even less sense for a parent, is that Trump orchestrated making Barron a Florida delegate to the RNC. Barron can't say no, he can't not vote for his dad. As a recent high school grad, he would be a babe in dangerous political woods. Donald Trump is all the fairy tale villains rolled into one.
Trump must have picked that photo of him and Barron, which makes Barron seem half a head shorter than Donny. In reality, Barron's half a head taller than daddy-o, even when he wears lifts.
The point is not the clickbait one about a brain worm. It's whether and how much brain damage he suffered as a consequence. Fairly important to know about a guy who wants his fingers on the nuclear codes.
The sleaziness of Donald Trump is obvious to anyone who bothers to look. He recognizes no limits to his personal conduct, as he recognizes no law that might restrict it.
Among the creepier aspects is that Trump thought saying a would be sex partner reminded him of his daughter would be seductive.
The story of Stormy may not be legally required. But it's essential to better understand Trump's behavior. The jury needs to understand why he would break the law to hide it.
Donald Trump has violated the gag order placed on him during his NY trial ten times so far. If he keeps violating it, what should Judge Juan Merchan do?
What should Justice Merchan do when Trump violates his gag order for the 11th time, which he will?
Home confinement, no leaving his NYC penthouse for 24 hours every Wednesday court is not in session. Defer further incarceration decisions until after trial is concluded.
Win or lose, Merchan retains jurisdiction over Trump for criminal contempt. He can impose extended home confinement or something more punitive, depending on how bad Trump's behavior was. Sounds light; it isn't.
Is the GOP compromised by Russian influence? The latest Substack from The Big Picture delves into this alarming possibility, highlighting instances where Republican leaders have echoed Kremlin propaganda even on the House floor. From disinformation tactics to possible extortion, discover the complex web of Russian influence in American politics. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/gop-russia-kompromat-putin-congress
Kristi Noem is just warming up her violent sociopathy. She's not a tough rancher, who deals with the death of farm animals all the time.
This story was about her puppy and would be shooting dog that she failed to train. She felt intense shame when her untrained dog embarrassed her by acting like ... an untrained dog at a shoot. She acted out to remove the embarrassment - with a gun.
Who wants her to be a McBurger away from the Oval Office?
Higher corporate taxes does not fund a budget so much as it redirects wealth otherwise retained by corporate owners, who own the vast amount of publicly traded shares. It reduces wealth disparity.
Properly drafted, higher corporate taxes permit higher wages and encourages investment in American facilities, because the investments are tax deductible. It's one reason the 1950s were so prosperous.
It's a disconnect Biden needs to bridge, as he needs to bridge the concerns of other groups whose concerns he seems to ignore.
He also needs to highlight more forcefully the consequences for those groups of electing his competitor. Not as an excuse to ignore them, as an explanation of what happens when you play with fire.
Seinfeld continues to be the funniest guy in politics; and the comments are hilarious.
America has no "extreme left." What passes for leftist in America - the most mild form of democratic socialism - would be considered center-right in any other country.
Jerry Seinfeld has drunk the Kool-Aid. He's reached the point where his most important statement of the day - apart from his brokerage account statement- is, "Get off my penthouse rooftop!"
I don't think Trump even wants to be president again. He knows he wasn't good at it.
I believe he's running primarily in hopes of shutting down the prosecutions against him and avoiding prison or financial ruin as consequences of his own actions.
Donald Trump wants to BE president, he just doesn't want to do the job of president. But then he didn't do it the first time, either.
This time, though, he would have a phalanx of Stephen Millers and Jeffrey Clarks to do the job for him. And another 100,000 of them distributed across the federal govt to make sure it never functioned again. Their first targets would be the DoJ, the IRS, and the SEC.
If the past has taught us anything, it is that this form of civil protest is often essential.
Administrators, especially the current generation of corporatized administrators, rarely listen to faculty, let alone students. As in business, learning to ignore their views is a right of passage, like learning to fire someone or to hate labor unions.
Power is not given. It has to be taken. A tool to do that peaceably is to wield shame against those who refuse to be embarrassed.
Donald Trump loves to claim that his unpredictability was an asset on the world stage, but in today's The Big Picture, writer Todd Beeton explores all the ways Trump's "Mad Man" theory of leadership actually made us weaker, not stronger. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/donald-trump-mad-man-theory
Donald Trump's version of Nixon - Kissinger's mad man theory of governance is a phrase, not an idea. He borrowed it from the last president before him who should have been indicted for his crimes.
Eric Trump? LOL. His father was never focused on bookkeeping, except to make sure his books never represented accurately his financial condition. That's why he didn't keep them in accordance with GAAP, didn't have a compliance director, and refused to have them audited or reviewed.
The Trumps regard their books and apparent financial condition as a tool to use in lobbying for whatever they want, not as a description of the condition of their business.
Pat Sajak must have run short that day, or needed a little more money for Hillsdale College, of which he is apparently chairman of the board, so the bonus round was a little ... harder than usual.
His lack of sincerity when a contestant loses the bonus round was par for the course. Not sad at all that this will be his final round on a show that has made him wealthy, most recently at a rate of $13 million/year.
Trickle down economics is not meant to work. It's a fantasy meant to placate hoi poloi, in hopes that they'll fight each other for scraps, rather than fight for a fairer share of their productivity, which the rich now keep all to themselves.
